Pacific Media Watch

Pacific Media Watch The global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has revealed an "alarming intensification of attacks on journalists" in its 2024 annual...

By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva Social cohesion is a national responsibility, and everyone, including the media, should support government’s efforts, according to Dr Shailendra Singh,...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned the assassination of Cambodian investigative environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng who has...

By Sean Mathews American officials have discussed the merits of removing a $10m bounty on Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, whose rebel...

COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein The incoming Trump administration will bring a dangerous brew of Christian nationalism and anti-Palestinian racism Things can always get worse. Much worse. The...

Pacific Media Watch An Aotearoa New Zealand-based community education provider is preparing a new course aimed to help media professionals in the Pacific region understand...

REVIEW: By Sam Rillstone, RNZ News Disney has returned to Motunui with Moana 2, a sequel to the 2016 hit Moana. But have they been...

Pacific Media Watch A community broadcaster in Aotearoa New Zealand has appealed for an end to the "sadistic cruelty" and the "out in the open...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis "Flashpoint" in a foreign news story usually brings to mind the Middle East or the border between North and South Korea....

RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has joined the debate about the haka that stunned Parliament and the nation last week, defending the...

By Georgia Brown, Queensland University of Technology Fijian newsrooms are under pressure to adapt as audiences shift away from traditional media such as newspapers, radio,...

Pacific Media Watch A media studies professor at Qatar's Doha Institute for Graduate Studies has completed empirical studies examining Western media coverage of Israel’s war...

RNZ News A group representing local councils in Aotearoa New Zealand is calling for the Local Democracy Reporting programme to be expanded after the media...

Pacific Media Watch As thousands take to the streets this week to "honour" the country's 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand...

Pacific Media Watch Hundreds of former employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs and CAMERA are working in top newsrooms across the United...

ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. But what do you know about...

By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand's national apology to survivors of abuse in care has...

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel has stepped up systematic attacks on journalists and media infrastructure since the...

ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis This morning, I am afraid. I am very afraid. I fear that by the time I go to bed democracy in the...

Pacific Media Watch The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for...